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Job description / Role
To ensure all Ooredoo customers have appropriate access to products and services as defined within the marketing plans through: Planning, Design and support implementing Access transmission for sites using a wide range of technologies and to oversee the planning and design of an appropriate transmission for the corporate fixed customers.
Core Responsibilities:
Strategy Planning:
- Undertake Developing the medium and long term strategy of Access Planning
- Undertake Development and ensure the implementation of the AOP
- Undertake the overall strategy of the organisation
Access Planning & Delivery:
- Undertake responsibility for Access Transmission Network design, engineering, network expansion to meet growth and business requirements and conforming to ITU-T standards and meeting the policies and regulations of Telecom Regulators.
- Ensure CAPEX spend is optimized to meet business requirements including OPEX optimization.
- Ensuring all PR are uploaded in the system, follow up on approval and PO are issued on time.
- Ensure timely and cost effective capacity design and planning of transmission network for capacity growth for access networks.
- Undertake the definition of the Transmission Network target architecture; evaluating different topologies and technologies to comply with future capacity, quality and capability needs.
- Ensure Microwave links/VSAT links design conforming to TRA approved frequency channels and bands as well as the prescribed availability and reliability criteria.
- Ensure the requisite planning and engineering documentation to ensure quality, implementation and effective operations.
- Undertake the responsibility of ensuring TRA approval for all VSAT and microwave links.Undertake AOP planning and 3YBP Planning.
- Undertake high and low level designs for the transmission network.
- Undertake the Coordination with Vender/Contractors, acceptance team and network integration of network elements including monitoring systems to ensure the delivery based on standards and in alignment to a plan.
Team Management:
- Ensure the alignment between company strategy and section objectives. Ensure making SMART objectives for the Team KPI.
- Manage the performance of staff through regular performance management, annual appraisals and the provision of coaching and on the job training.
- Ensure all team within the section has a development plan and support them in achieving the plan in order to achieve the highest standards of performance at all time.
- Support employees reporting to him/her understand the policy and follow it.
- Ensure all employees have balance tasks and working with realistic workload.
- Manage employees performance and providing continuous feedback Demonstrate leadership situational style.
- Actively transfer knowledge and experience to team members to raise the level of knowledge and capability within the team.
- Ensuring good communication with other departments, internal and external customers and service providers.
- Reporting any issues and problems to management, making suggestions to optimise work processes.
Requirements
You have minimum a university degree, with minimum of 6 years of experience in Access Network design and implementation. Experience in other Access technologies like FOC,HDSL and Wifi. At last 5 within an Access Network design function and some exposure to team.
- leadership/supervision
- Knowledge of and hands on experience of TRA approvals and processes
- Good understanding of service assurance within a Telco operator (within Operations and Maintenance)
- Fluent in English. Arabic a plus
- Experience in GIS will be Plus
- MS Office fluency
Technical Skills Required:
- TRA Approvals Site Surveying
- Government Clearance
- Site Design
- Strategy thinking
- Report Writing
- Budget Planning
- Cost Analysis
- Business Analysis
- Database Management
Behavioural Skills Required:
- Influence and persuasion
- Leadership skills
- Management Skills
- Project Management Skills
- Communication skills
- Teamwork
- Planning & Organising
- Analytical thinking and Problem Solving
- Results Orientation
- Customer Focus
- Delegation
About the Company
Ooredoo, Omans customer friendly communications provider..
Ooredoo combines extensive global expertise and talented, caring people with a genuine understanding of Omani culture to offer you the highest levels of user-friendly technology and customer satisfaction.
Our Vision and Mission
At Ooredoo, we are committed to enhancing your daily life by making communication easier, more versatile and always a rewarding experience.
Our vision is to enrich the lives of people in Oman through better communication services. Furthermore, our mission is to be the communications provider and employer of choice in Oman.